The Wakayama Prefecture town of Taiji, known for its whale and dolphin hunts, said Wednesday it is establishing a sister-city relationship with a town in the Faroe Islands with similar traditional practices. Taiji and the Klaksvik in the Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic are ...
The town of Taiji, known for its whale-hunting traditions, held an annual memorial service on Saturday for whales captured and killed. Some 100 people including fishermen gathered in front of a whale-shaped monument at a park in the town and offered incense in a gesture ...
Two aquariums in Japan said they have canceled their memberships with the Japanese Association of Zoos and Aquariums due to its decision to forbid the acquisition of dolphins caught through controversial drive hunts off the town of Taiji in Wakayama Prefecture. Enoshima Aquarium in Fujisawa, ...
It's not often a documentary is made in response to another documentary, but this year two movies have addressed the 2009 Oscar-winning documentary "The Cove," which was about the capture and killing of wild dolphins in Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture. First-time filmmaker Keiko Yagi's "Behind ...
A documentary introducing the voices of Japanese people who support whaling and dolphin hunting will be screened at a U.S. film festival in October, its director said Thursday. "Behind the Cove — The Quiet Japanese Speak Out!" will be screened on Oct. 1 during the ...
Japanese fishermen on Friday killed the first dolphins of the season in a controversial annual hunt that has attracted global attention after it was featured in the Oscar-winning 2009 documentary "The Cove." Fishermen from the town of Taiji, in Wakayama Prefecture, caught 20 dolphins, according ...
The director of a documentary featuring the lives and voices of Japanese people who support whaling has started a campaign on an international crowd-funding site in hopes of screening her film in the United States. Keiko Yagi, the director of "Behind the Cove — The ...
Sales of dolphin and other small cetaceans caught in controversial drive hunts in Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture, increased by almost 40 percent in the eight months to April, data showed. Despite the Japanese Association of Zoos and Aquariums introducing a ban last May on purchasing dolphins ...
The Australian, of conservation group Australia for Dolphins (AFD), was barred from entering the museum in February 2014.
A Japanese woman hopes a documentary she has made will help opponents of Japan's hunting of whales and dolphins acquire a better understanding of the practice. "Japanese have failed to argue against the criticism, mostly from the West, because silence is a virtue in Japan ...
For the past few weeks I've been having flashbacks of a video that a vegan acquaintance posted on Facebook. Shot on a hidden camera, it depicted hundreds of fluffy male chicks getting conveyed into an industrial grinder, their punishment for being deemed surplus to ...
A U.S. activist opposing the dolphin hunt in Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture, now in detention near Narita International Airport said Tuesday he is a political prisoner for his efforts to save dolphins. Ric O'Barry, who was featured in the Oscar-winning documentary "The Cove," has been held ...
